Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval : britac/browse
Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795902.001.0001/acprof-9780198795902
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198795902.jpg" alt="Orality and Performance in Classical Attic ProseA Linguistic Approach"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Alessandro Vatri</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198795902</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795902.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-04-20</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Is there a linguistic difference between classical Greek prose texts meant for oral delivery in public and those meant for written circulation and private reception? This difficult question is recurrently raised by literary scholars and cultural historians of the ancient world, and this book discusses first of all its legitimacy by defining what such slippery notions as ‘orality’ and ‘oral performance’ mean in the context of classical Athens, by reconstructing the situations in which the extant prose texts were meant to be received, and by explaining on which grounds we may expect linguistic features of the texts to be related to such situations. Cultural-historical and anthropological facts substantiate the idea that texts conceived for public delivery needed to be as clear as possible, but do not imply that the opposite was required of texts conceived for private reception. Clarity is a slippery notion and has often been assessed impressionistically by modern scholars. Based on the available evidence on the perception of linguistic difficulty for native speakers of Classical Greek, this book attempts to establish a rigorous method for the reconstruction of native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception. For this purpose, this study builds on the theoretical insights and current experimental findings of modern psycholinguistics. The analysis of a small corpus of samples of Attic speeches suggests that no significant difference in oral comprehension difficulty existed between Attic prose texts, while certain texts appear to have been significantly harder to understand than others in reading.</p>Alessandro Vatri2017-04-20The Elegiac Passion//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925902.001.0001/acprof-9780199925902
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199925902.jpg" alt="The Elegiac PassionJealousy in Roman Love Elegy"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Ruth Rothaus Caston</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199925902</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925902.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2012</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2013-01-24</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity. This is a study on their role in Roman love elegy (1st c. BCE), a genre rife with passions and jealousy in particular. Jealousy does appear in a number of earlier genres, but never with the centrality and importance it has in elegy. This book offers an exceptional opportunity to investigate the ancient representation of jealousy in its Roman context, as well as its significance for Roman love elegy itself. The narrators portray themselves as poets and as experts of love, championing a view of love that stands in marked contrast to the criticisms that Stoic and Epicurean philosophers had raised. Elegy provides rich evidence of the genesis and development of erotic jealousy: we find suspicions and rumors of infidelity, obsessive attention to visual clues, and accusations and confrontations with the beloved. The Roman elegists depict the susceptibility and reactions to jealousy along gendered lines, with an asymmetric representation of skepticism and belief, violence and restraint. But jealousy has ramifications well beyond the erotic affair. Underlying jealousy are fears about fides or trust and the vulnerability of human relations. These are prominent in love relationships, of course, but the term has broader application in the Roman world, and the poetic narrator often extends his fears about trust into many other dimensions of life, including friendship, religion, and politics. The infidelity rampant in the love affair indicates a more general breakdown of trust in other human relations. All of these features have implications for the genre itself. Many of the distinctive elements of Roman elegy—its first-person narration, obsessive recordkeeping, and role-playing—can be seen to derive from the thematic concern with jealousy. As such, jealousy provides a new way of understanding the distinctive features of Roman love elegy.</p>Ruth Rothaus Caston2013-01-24Latin Word Order//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181685.001.0001/acprof-9780195181685
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780195181685.jpg" alt="Latin Word OrderStructured Meaning and Information"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>A. M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780195181685</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181685.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2006</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2007-09-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order entails losing access to a whole dimension of meaning, or at least using inferential procedures to guess at what is actually overtly encoded in the syntax. This book introduces the linguistic concepts, formalism, and analytical techniques necessary for the study of Latin word order. It then presents and analyzes a representative selection of data in sufficient detail to foster both an intuitive grasp of the often rather subtle principles controlling Latin word order and a theoretically grounded understanding of the system that underlies it. Combining the rich empirical documentation of traditional philological approaches with the deeper theoretical insight of modern linguistics, this book aims to reduce the intricate surface patterns of Latin word order to a simple and general cross-categorical system of syntactic structure which translates more or less directly into constituents of pragmatic and semantic meaning.</p>A. M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens2007-09-01Love and Providence//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199916047.001.0001/acprof-9780199916047
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199916047.jpg" alt="Love and ProvidenceRecognition in the Ancient Novel"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Silvia Montiglio</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199916047</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199916047.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2012</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2013-01-24</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The core of this book is an investigation of the treatment of the recognition motif in the Greek novels. It also includes forays into the Roman novels, early Jewish and Christian narratives, and an overview of a sample of early modern European texts, which have been influenced by the ancient novel in their recognition scenes. The ancient novels inherit the recognition motif from epic and drama, and acknowledge their debts by citations or allusions. They also share an ideological mainstay underlying the poetics of recognition in ancient literature: poetic justice, or “goodness wins.” Recognition rewards the deserving couple with the happy ending (this idealistic scenario is not endorsed by the Roman novels). At the same time, the Greek novels also innovate, adding more “natural” ways of recognition (the voice, appearance, the telling of one’s life, instinct, even breathing) to the artificial and conventional ones (tokens or bodily marks) preferred by tradition. This shift of emphasis is related to the idealization of love typical of the genre. Love itself is recognition and should suffice for lovers to recognize each other. Novelists play with this dictate in a variety of ways, romantically endorsing it or challenging it irreverently. Recognitions of family identity likewise negotiate tradition with innovation, bringing the call of blood, or nature’s voice, to bear on the revelation of kinship between family members unknown to each other. The final pages of this book follow the fortunate developments of the motif of blood’s call in later literature.</p>Silvia Montiglio2013-01-24The Letters of Psellos//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198787228.001.0001/acprof-9780198787228
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198787228.jpg" alt="The Letters of PsellosCultural Networks and Historical Realities"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>MichaelJeffreysMichael JeffreysProfessor Emeritus of Modern Greek, University of SydneyMarc D.LauxtermannMarc D. LauxtermannBywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, University of Oxford</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198787228</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, European History: BCE to 500CE</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198787228.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>The 500-odd letters of Michael Psellos (1018–1078) are literary masterpieces, with attractive subtlety and humour, but also often difficult to understand in their entirety. They offer precious information on the political culture of Byzantium, the court, civil administration, the provinces, monasteries, the charistike system, dignities and offices, prosopography in general, the educational system, social codes, religious beliefs, customs, popular culture, etc., and are therefore of great historical significance. This book is the first to study Psellos’ correspondence in detail. It consists of two parts: Studies and Summaries. The Studies offer detailed analyses of a considerable number of letters, related to the educational system, the financial management of monasteries, the biography of a high-ranking courtier, the friendship of Michael Psellos and John Mauropous, and the challenges posed by Psellian irony. The Summaries make the content of all the letters of Psellos accessible to the academic community and offer a shortcut into the often bewildering, but highly interesting letters of Michael Psellos.</p>Michael Jeffreys and Marc D. Lauxtermann2017-01-19Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198802228.001.0001/oso-9780198802228
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198802228.jpg" alt="Rethinking Lessing's LaocoonAntiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>AviLifschitzAvi LifschitzSenior Lecturer in European Intellectual History, University College LondonMichaelSquireMichael SquireReader in Classical Art, King's College London</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198802228</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/oso/9780198802228.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-10-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Ever since its publication in 1766, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s treatise Laocoon, or On the Limits of Painting and Poetry has shaped debates about aesthetic experience and the medial distinctions between words and images. Rethinking Lessing’s Laocoon provides a reassessment of this seminal work on its 250th anniversary, examining Lessing’s interpretation of ancient art and poetry, the Enlightenment contexts of the treatise, and its subsequent legacy in the fields of aesthetic, semiotics, and philosophy. Lessing’s essay is focused on an ancient statue and its interpretation, revisiting Greek and Roman texts and images to think about the spatial and temporal ‘limits’ (Grenzen) of what Lessing calls ‘poetry’ and ‘painting’. Yet the text is also embedded within Enlightenment theories of art, perception, and historical interpretation—as well as within the nascent eighteenth-century study of classical antiquity (Altertumswissenschaft). Rethinking Lessing’s Laocoon is concerned not just with Lessing’s reception of antiquity, but also with the reception of that reception up to the present day. It examines Lessing’s work from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, highlighting the importance of Lessing’s Laocoon not only to the Enlightenment, but more generally also within shifting attitudes to the classical past.</p>Avi Lifschitz and Michael Squire2017-10-19Ammianus' Julian//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198784951.001.0001/acprof-9780198784951
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198784951.jpg" alt="Ammianus' JulianNarrative and Genre in the Res Gestae"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Alan J. Ross</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198784951</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198784951.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2016</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-08-18</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book presents a re-examination of Ammianus Marcellinus’ agenda and methods in narrating the reign of the emperor Julian (355–63). Ammianus’ Res Gestae provides the fullest extant narrative of Julian, and holds a prominent position in modern studies of the last ‘pagan’ emperor. This book suggests that the Res Gestae presents a Latin-speaking, western audience with an idiosyncratic and ‘Romanized’ depiction of the philhellene emperor. Consciously exploiting his position as a Greek writing in Latin, and as a contemporary of Julian, Ammianus wished the Res Gestae to be considered a culminating and definitive account of Julian. The volume examines several key episodes from Books 14–25—Gallus and Silvanus, Julian’s appointment as Caesar, the battle of Strasbourg, his acclamation as Augustus, and the Persian campaign of 363. Building on recent advances in literary approaches to historical texts, it evaluates Ammianus’ presentation of Julian in each episode by considering the Res Gestae within three interrelated contexts: as a work of Latin historiography, which sets itself within a classical and classicizing tradition; in a more immediate literary and political context, as the final contribution by a member of an ‘eyewitness’ generation to a quarter century of intense debate over Julian’s legacy by several authors who had lived through the reign and had been in varying degrees of proximity to Julian; and as a narrative text, in which narratorial authority is closely associated with the persona of the narrator, both as an external narrating agent and an occasional participant in the text.</p>Alan J. Ross2016-08-18Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198768104.001.0001/oso-9780198768104
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198768104.jpg" alt="Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>JenniferCromwellJennifer CromwellMarie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of CopenhagenEitanGrossmanEitan GrossmanAssistant Professor of Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198768104</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/oso/9780198768104.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2018-02-15</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This volume deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the people who actually produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. Breaking with the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as ‘free’ or indicative of ‘corruption’, this volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the point of view of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, seeing scribes as agents embedded in particular geographical, temporal, and sociocultural environments. This volume comprises a set of studies of scribal variation, beginning from the well-established domain of scribal variation in pre-modern English as a methodological point of departure, and proceeding to studies of scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Late Antique and Islamic Egypt. This volume introduces to Egyptology concepts such as scribal communities, networks, and repertoires, and applies them to a variety of phenomena, including features of lexicon, grammar, orthography, palaeography, layout, and format.</p>Jennifer Cromwell and Eitan Grossman2018-02-15Exemplary Traits//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734283.001.0001/acprof-9780199734283
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199734283.jpg" alt="Exemplary TraitsReading Characterization in Roman Poetry"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>J. Mira Seo</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199734283</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734283.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2013</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2013-09-26</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>How did Roman poets create character? This book frames this question through the cultural and intellectual horizons of Roman authors and audiences. By applying the philosophical, rhetorical, and cultural discourses of selfhood and exemplarity to the poetics of character, we can become more aware of characterization’s function in Roman poetry. Through a series of case studies, this book expands our awareness of characterization in Roman poetry both as a literary practice and as a discourse of the self. Individual character studies examine the dynamics of literary genealogy, Stoic hagiography, exemplarity, and intertextuality in Vergil’s Aeneid, Lucan, Senecan tragedy, and Statius’ Thebaid. </p>J. Mira Seo2013-09-26Work in Progress//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199837519.001.0001/acprof-9780199837519
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199837519.jpg" alt="Work in ProgressLiterary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Sean Alexander Gurd</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199837519</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199837519.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2011</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-01-19</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and strategies of self-representation among Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of earlier Greek material, including Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic poetry. The book argues that revision made textuality into a medium of social exchange. Revisions were not always made by authors working alone; often, they were the result of conversations between an author and friends or literary contacts, and these conversations exemplified a commitment to collective debate and active collaboration. Revision was thus much more than an unavoidable element in literary genesis: it was one way in which authorship became a form of social agency. Consequently, when we think about revision for authors of the late republic and early empire we should not think solely of painstaking attendance to craft aimed exclusively at the perfection of a literary work. Nor should we think of the resulting texts as closed and invariant statements sent from an author to his reader. So long as an author was still willing to revise, his text served as a temporary platform around and in which a community came into being. Much more was at stake than the text itself: like all communities, such textual communities were subject to imbalances and differentiation in taste, ideology, capability and willingness to participate, and above all power, the ability to propose and enforce a specific set of textual choices.</p>Sean Alexander Gurd2012-01-19Pater the Classicist//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723417.001.0001/acprof-9780198723417
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198723417.jpg" alt="Pater the ClassicistClassical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>CharlesMartindaleCharles MartindaleEmeritus Professor of Latin, University of BristolStefanoEvangelistaStefano EvangelistaAssociate Professor of English, University of OxfordElizabethPrettejohnElizabeth PrettejohnProfessor of History of Art, University of York</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198723417</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723417.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2017</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2017-04-20</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater’s important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Pater is our greatest aesthetic critic. He was also a professional classicist who lectured and gave tutorials at the University of Oxford, and participated in many of the debates fostered by Classics as an academic discipline, a point often downplayed. Yet Pater’s aestheticism and his interests as a classicist went closely together. One might say that the classical tradition in its broadest sense (including the question of how to understand its workings and temporalities) is Pater’s principal subject as a writer. Pater initially approached antiquity obliquely (for example, through the Italian Renaissance or the poetry of William Morris). Later in his career he wrote more, and more directly, about the ancient world, particularly about his first love Greece. Pater’s conception of Classics was cross-disciplinary, outward-looking, and pan-European, and thus a potential model for Classics today. The Pater who emerges is a many-sided, inspirational figure, with a message for today, whose achievement helped to reinvigorate the classical studies that were the very basis of the English educational system of the nineteenth century. The four parts of the book discuss his classicism generally, his fiction set in classical antiquity (especially Marius the Epicurean), his writings on Greek literature and culture, and on ancient philosophy, especially the works of of Plato. The wider Victorian context is also illuminated, and other figures discussed include J. A. Symonds, Henry Nettleship, Vernon Lee, and Jane Harrison.</p>Charles Martindale, Stefano Evangelista, and Elizabeth Prettejohn2017-04-20Kinship in Thucydides//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697779.001.0001/acprof-9780199697779
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199697779.jpg" alt="Kinship in ThucydidesIntercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Maria Fragoulaki</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199697779</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697779.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2013</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2014-01-23</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, society, and culture. Presenting a new interpretation of the Peloponnesian War and its historian, it focuses on the role of emotions, ethics, collective memory, and intangible factors more generally, in the context of political history and ethnic conflicts. Drawing on modern anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity and emotions, and on scholarly work on kinship diplomacy and Greek ethnicity, it argues that intercommunal kinship has a far more pervasive importance in Thucydides than has so far been acknowledged. Through close readings and contextualization of a variety of sources, the book discusses the various ways in which ancient Greek communities could be related to each other (colonization, genealogies, belonging to the same ethnic group, socio-cultural symbols, political mechanisms, and institutions) and the largely cultural, emotional, and ethical expression of these ties. Through new readings of the History, Thucydides’ narrative technique, such topics as his astonishing exhaustiveness, alongside implicitness and understatement, his challenging silences, his interaction with other genres, and his intense engagement with Herodotus are dissected and discussed, this book offers a new appreciation of his authorial personality and unique contribution to historiography.</p>Maria Fragoulaki2014-01-23Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699711.001.0001/acprof-9780199699711
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199699711.jpg" alt="Plutarch: Demosthenes and Cicero"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Andrew Lintott</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199699711</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699711.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2013</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2013-05-23</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Plutarch's Lives have been popular reading from antiquity to the present day, combining engaging biographical detail with a strong underlying moral purpose. The Lives of Demosthenes and Cicero are an unusual pair in that they are about unmilitary men who, while superb technically as orators, were both in the end political failures, crushed by the military power which dominated their world. In these two Lives, Plutarch is not so much interested in Demosthenes' and Cicero's rhetorical technique as in their ability to persuade an audience to vote for the right course of action, even if that action was prima facie unpopular. In Plutarch's own time, when the empire of the Caesars had been established for over a century, liberty was of necessity limited, but still an issue, for both Greeks and Romans. His home, Chaeroneia, was a provincial town in Greece, but he travelled regularly to Italy where he met Romans from the elite that ruled the empire. He wrote both for his fellow imperial subjects who still sought to enjoy what freedom they could obtain from the ruling power, and for the Romans who exercised that power but were always subject to the ultimate authority of the emperor. Along with the translations and commentaries, this book provides a detailed introduction which discusses the background and context of these two Lives, essential information about the author and the periods in which these two orators lived, and the philosophy which underlies Plutarch's presentation of the two personalities.</p>Andrew Lintott2013-05-23Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose//britishacademy.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5871/bacad/9780197263327.001.0001/upso-9780197263327
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780197263327.jpg" alt="Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>TobiasReinhardtTobias ReinhardtFellow and Tutor in Classics, Somerville College, University of OxfordMichaelLapidgeMichael LapidgeEmeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the British AcademyJ. N.AdamsJ. N. AdamsSenior Research Fellow in Classics, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780197263327</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>British Academy</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.5871/bacad/9780197263327.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2005</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2012-01-31</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Twenty chapters from two often-dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth century. Language is not understood in a narrowly philological or linguistic sense, but as encompassing the literary exploitation of linguistic effects and the influence of formal rhetoric on prose. Key themes explored throughout this book are the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. Chapters cover a comprehensive range of material including studies of individual works, groups of authors such as the Republican historians, prose genres such as the ancient novel or medieval biography, and linguistic topics such as the use of connectives in archaic Latin or prose rhythm in medieval Latin.</p>Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, and J. N. Adams2012-01-31The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263158.001.0001/acprof-9780199263158
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199263158.jpg" alt="The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Elaine Fantham</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199263158</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263158.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2004</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2010-01-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book studies Cicero's first and fullest dialogue, on the ideal orator-statesman. It illustrates the dialogue's achievement as a reflection of a civilized way of life and a brilliantly constructed literary unity, and considers the contribution made by Cicero's recommendations to the development of rhetoric and higher education at Rome. Because Cicero deliberately set his extended conversation in the generation of his childhood teachers, a study of the dialogue in its historical setting can show how the political and cultural life of this earlier period differed from Cicero's personal experience of the collapse of senatorial government, when the overwhelming power of the ‘first triumvirate’ forced him into political silence in the last decade of the republic. After an introductory chapter reviewing Cicero's position on return from exile, chapters include a comparative study of the careers of M. Antonius and L. Licinius Crassus, protagonists of the dialogue, a discussion of Cicero's response to Plato's criticisms of rhetoric in the Gorgias and Phaedrus, and his debt to Aristotle's Rhetoric, analysis of the dialogue's treatment of Roman civil law, existing Latin literature and historical writing, Strabo's survey of the sources and application of humour, political eloquence in senate and contio, theories of diction and style, and the techniques of oral delivery. An epilogue looks briefly at Cicero's De re publica and Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus as reflections on the transformation of oratory and free (if oligarchic) republican government by debate to meet the context of the new autocracy.</p>Elaine Fantham2010-01-01Making a New Man//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267804.001.0001/acprof-9780199267804
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199267804.jpg" alt="Making a New ManCiceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>John Dugan</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199267804</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267804.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2005</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2010-01-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This study investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a ‘new man’.</p>John Dugan2010-01-01Demosthenes the Orator//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287192.001.0001/acprof-9780199287192
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199287192.jpg" alt="Demosthenes the Orator"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Douglas M. MacDowell</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199287192</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287192.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2009</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2010-02-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Concentrating on Demosthenes' texts rather than his politics, this book describes and assesses all his speeches, including those for the lawcourts as well as the addresses to the Ekklesia. Besides the genuine speeches, it also covers those which probably are wrongly ascribed to Demosthenes, such as those written for delivery by Apollodoros. It considers the Epistles, the Prooimia, and the Erotic Speech. The arguments of each speech are analysed. The question whether the texts reproduce accurately what was actually spoken is approached cautiously. There is a short survey of Demosthenes' prose style, with examples quoted in Greek. In the rest of the book quotations are given in the author's own translations, with the Greek words added in footnotes where appropriate.</p>Douglas M. MacDowell2010-02-01Cicero the Advocate//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198152804.001.0001/acprof-9780198152804
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780198152804.jpg" alt="Cicero the Advocate"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>JonathanPowellJonathan PowellProfessor of Latin, Royal Holloway, University of Londonhttp://www.rhul.ac.uk/classics/JGFP/JGFP%20index.htmlJeremyPatersonJeremy PatersonSenior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Newcastle upon Tynehttp://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/staff/profile/j.j.paterson</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780198152804</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198152804.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2004</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2010-01-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book considers Cicero's forensic speeches as acts of advocacy, that is, designed to ensure that the person he represents is acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It sets the speeches within the context of the court system of the Late Roman Republic and explores the strategies available to Roman advocates to win the votes of jurors. The book deals with issues concerning the general nature of advocacy, the court system in ancient Rome as compared with other ancient and modern systems, the Roman ‘profession’ of advocacy and its etiquette, the place of advocacy in Cicero's career, the ancient theory of rhetoric and argument as applied to courtroom advocacy, and the relationship between the published texts of the speeches as we have them and the speeches actually delivered in court. Other topics covered by the book include legal procedure in Cicero's time, Cicero's Italian clients, Cicero's methods of setting out or alluding to the facts of a case, his use of legal arguments, arguments from character, invective, self-reference, and emotional appeal. Some particular speeches are discussed as case studies covering the period of the height of Cicero's career, from 70 BC, when he became acknowledged as the leading Roman advocate, to 49 BC when Julius Caesar's dictatorship required Cicero to adapt his well-tried forensic techniques to drastically new circumstances. Those speeches contain arguments on a wide range of subject matter, including provincial maladministration, usurpation of citizenship rights, violent dispossession, the religious law relating to the consecration of property, poisoning, bribery, and political offences.</p>Jonathan Powell and Jeremy Paterson2010-01-01Aulus Gellius//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263196.001.0001/acprof-9780199263196
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199263196.jpg" alt="Aulus GelliusAn Antonine Scholar and his Achievement"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Leofranc Holford-Strevens</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199263196</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263196.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2003</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2010-02-01</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of ‘classical’ and ‘humanities’. His Attic Nights, so named because they began as the intellectual pastime of winter evenings spent in a villa outside Athens, are a mine of information on many aspects of antiquity and a repository of much early Latin literature that would otherwise be lost; he took a particular interest in questions of grammar and literary style. The whole work is interspersed with interesting personal observations and vignettes of second-century life that throw light on the Antonine world. This study, the most comprehensive of Gellius in any language, examines his life, his circle of acquaintances, his style, his reading, his scholarly interests, and his place in literary tradition parentage; reference is made to his reception in later antiquity and beyond. It covers many subject areas such as language, literature, law, rhetoric, and medicine; it also examines Gellius's attitudes to women and the relation considered between the literary trends of Latin (the so-called archaizing movement) and Greek (Atticism) in the second century AD. The text, sense, and content of numerous individual passages are considered, and light shed on a wide range of problems in Greek as well as Latin authors.</p>Leofranc Holford-Strevens2010-02-01Classical Commentaries//www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688982.001.0001/acprof-9780199688982
<table><tr><td width="200px"><img width="150px" src="/view/covers/9780199688982.jpg" alt="Classical CommentariesExplorations in a Scholarly Genre"/><br/></td><td><dl><dt>Author:</dt><dd>Christina S.KrausChristina S. KrausThomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin, Yale UniversityChristopherStrayChristopher StrayHonorary Research Fellow, Department of History and Classics, Swansea University</dd><dt>ISBN:</dt><dd>9780199688982</dd><dt>Publisher:</dt><dd>Oxford University Press</dd><dt>Subjects:</dt><dd>Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval</dd><dt>DOI:</dt><dd>10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688982.001.0001</dd><dt>Published in print:</dt><dd>2015</dd><dt>Published Online:</dt><dd>2016-01-21</dd></dl></td></tr></table><p>This book consists of twenty-six chapters on classical commentaries which deal with commentaries from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The book contributes to the interface between two emerging fields of study: the history of scholarship and the history of the book. It builds on earlier work on this area by paying particular attention to: (1) specific editions, whether those regarded as classics in their own right, or those that seem representative of important trends or orientations in scholarship; (2) traditions of commentary on specific classical authors; and (3) the processes of publishing and printing as they have related to the production of editions. The book takes account of the material form of commentaries and of their role in education: the chapters deal both with academic books and also with books written for schools, and pay particular attention to the role of commentaries in the reception of classical texts.</p>Christina S. Kraus and Christopher Stray2016-01-21